ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,241, issued on June 30, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).

"LED lights for deep ocean use" was invented by Eric Chapman (Lake Tapps, Wash.), Jon Simmons (Poway, Calif.), Aaron Steiner (San Diego) and Mark Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underwater LED light for use in high ambient pressure environments having a housing, a transparent pressure-bearing window, an MCPCB having one or more LEDS, and a multilayer stack of spacers for carrying loads applied to the window to the MCPCB and to the housing."

The patent was filed on March 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/701,018.

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